“President Donald Trump directed Secretary of Energy Rick Perry and two top State Department officials to deal with his private attorney Rudy Giuliani when the Ukrainian President sought to meet Trump, in a clear circumvention of official channels, according to two sources familiar with the conversation.

“Trump believed Ukraine was still rampantly corrupt and said that if President Volodymyr Zelensky wanted to meet with him, Giuliani would have to be convinced first, one source said. ‘If they can satisfy Rudy, they can satisfy the President,’ a person familiar with the meeting said.”

OK, there’s a couple of things going on there, 1) The whole Hugh Kraine scandal started WAY before Prznint Stupid decided to shake down President Zelensky on the phone to make up dirt on Joe Biden, and B) since when are Federal Gubmint employees instructed to work with any president’s personal attorney to do anything, let alone Prznint Stupid’s teevee lawyer? This is nuts, he thinks that the entire gubmint is his to grift and graft?

This is nuts, he thinks that the entire gubmint is his to grift and graft?

All his adult life he’s been coddled into believing HE Was The Boss Man; and his staff did the best they could to keep the companies running; not hard when most of them were schemes to defraud investors and leave them holding the bag.

Then he hit it big on TeeVee with the unreality show “The Apprentice” where he got to be The Big Man In Charge, all scripted for him by Mark Burnett. (note, time machine inventors…before you go back and kill baby Hitler, whack baby Burnett on the way by, we’ll all be far better off without him) which was a ‘moving from snorting a little stepped-on street coke on weekends to motorboating a mountain of pure Peruvian flake off your desk’ level ego boost.

Trumps patholoical narcissism has been fed and nurtured for so long, he really does think he was elected King. I don’t honestly think there’s any difference in his mind between consciously lying and scheming to believing his bullshit. I mean, by now, he really does think he can walk out and shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it.

So yes, he does think the entire gubmint is his to grift. L’état, c’est lui

And he’s surrounded by enablers (note 2 for you time travellers, maybe Baby Barr, too? Definitely leave a round or two for Miller and Bannon! Ah what the hell, [hauls out half a ream of paper] I have a little list, there’s none that shall be missed!) who are perfectly happy to keep feeding it now, in ever increasing doses…after all he IS the most Powerfull Boss in the World now!

He’ll be utterly Joker style bugshit crazy by the time it’s over, but they don’t care, they’re getting what they want.

🎶 They’re gonna give you up
They’re gonna let you down
They’re gonna run away and desert you
They’re gonna make you cry🎵

I expect the dam to break, sooner rather than later.

I’ve got some quatloos to wager on who plays the “Barry Goldwater Elder Statesman More In Sorrow Than Anger” role on the nixonian visit to the Oval Office giving him the “It isn’t personal, just bidness” resign or else ultimatum…just not sure who to place them on.

RomneyBot 3.0 is a tempting choice, but I suspect it’ll be someone more solid in the GOP who isn’t running for re-election in 2020. RomneyBot still doesn’t have the stones to stick the shiv in facing the guy, Maybe Grassley. He could definitely stick someone face to face, then issue a completely incomprehensible tweet about it.

(also too, for purely literary reasons, I’m willing to stretch it out to the Ides of March…)